What We Do

Historic Eastfield Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization, and the campus for the Annual Series of Historic American Trades and Crafts Workshops, a nationally renowned program of lectures, symposia, and hands-on workshops.

Historic Eastfield Village itself is not a museum; there are no ropes or glassed-off exhibits. Founder Don Carpentier collected the more than twenty buildings and their contents to serve as a laboratory, allowing Workshop participants the opportunity to study, handle, and utilize thousands of architectural elements, tools, and typical artifacts of pre-Industrial America.

Studying here is meant to be an immersive experience. Participants and instructors can live in the Village during their courses, experiencing first-hand the daily lives and work of the tradespeople of the pre-Industrial Age.

The experts and master craftspeople instructing these workshops and activities are leaders in their fields, and the Annual Series of Workshops maintains the highest educational standards. Participants are a mixture of novices, whose interests may be their own historic houses, and museum or industry professionals, who are looking to expand their specific skills. This combination offers a dynamic opportunity to share and learn.